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IN RE: A. R. M. H., a Child. Department of Human Services, Petitioner-Respondent, v. N. C. N. and N. H., Appellants.
IN RE: C. F. H., a Child. Department of Human Services, Petitioner-Respondent, v. N. H., Appellant.
Mother appeals a juvenile court judgment changing the permanency plan as to her two children, A and C, from reunification to adoption. Father likewise appeals the change in plan as to his child with mother, A. Although mother raises several assignments of error, the substance of her challenge is to the finding that DHS made reasonable efforts toward returning the children to her care.1 Father likewise challenges the juvenile court's finding that DHS's efforts as to him were reasonable.
Neither party has requested de novo review, and such review is not warranted in this case. Rather, we review whether the evidence, as supplemented and buttressed by permissible derivative inferences and considered in the light most favorable to the juvenile court's disposition, was sufficient to support the juvenile court's conclusions. Dept. of Human Services v. M. K., 285 Or. App. 448, 450, 396 P.3d 294, rev. den., 361 Or. 885, 403 P.3d 771 (2017).
Although a detailed discussion would not benefit the bench and bar, we are satisfied that the record supports the juvenile court's conclusion that DHS made reasonable efforts as to both parents.
Affirmed.
FOOTNOTES
1. In her third and fourth assignments of error, mother challenges the juvenile court's finding that she had not made sufficient progress for the children to be returned to her care; however, DHS argues that she did not preserve that challenge below and, in all events, she does not offer any substance to that argument beyond her challenge to the reasonable efforts finding. Her challenge to the change in plan in her fifth and sixth assignments of error likewise does not consist of any additional argument. Accordingly, we focus on mother's challenge to the reasonable efforts finding.
PER CURIAM
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Docket No: A175285 (Control), A175286, A175288
Decided: December 15, 2021
Court: Court of Appeals of Oregon.
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